Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Lissamota, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissamota
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burial Gd. for Children
- Latest-edition OS map
- Infants Burial Ground (Disused) (1924).
- Coordinates
- 52.49421, -8.84132
- SMR number
- LI030-031002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In NE quadrant of embanked ovoid enclosure (LI029-121--*). Sub-circular area (diam. c. 10m) enclosed by low earth and stone bank (H 0.2m). This area covered by dense overgrowth of trees and bushes, but no grave markers appear to be present. Described in 1840 as a 'Children's Burial ground' (OSNB No 85, 239).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.